Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean (PLAC)/ Third Annual Conference
Right, Left, Right: U-Turns and their Impact in Latin America and the Caribbean
Thursday, October 12, 2017 -
Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania
All around the world voters are choosing leaders and policies that promise to break away with the politics of the recent past. From Brexit, to the victory of the No in Colombia’s Peace Accords referendum, to the selection of a political outsider to the U.S. presidency, we are witnessing major shifts in voters’ preferences, which are leading to important changes in legislation and policy-making. In Latin America, after almost two decades of leftist governments and social redistribution policies, right wing governments are back in power in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Paraguay, promising to cut down public spending and reversing most of the socio-economic policies of their predecessors. How will Latin American populations, particularly the most vulnerable sectors, be impacted by these political swings? What can we learn from the past? What is likely to happen with the delivery of health services, educational services, urban planning, and protection of the environment in the region? Will drug trafficking and violence recede in Central America, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela? What will happen to international trade agreements, such as NAFTA? How will hemispheric migration evolve? These are some of the questions we will reflect upon in the PLAC 3rd Annual Conference, which will bring together colleagues and scholars from multiple disciplines across the University of Pennsylvania. This event will showcase Penn’s outstanding and cutting-edge research on Latin America and the Caribbean.
The PLAC 3rd Annual Conference is being organized and co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program (SAS); the School of Nursing; Penn Global; and the Perry World House, Harnwell College House Latin America Residential Program and International Program.
See below for the complete conference program:
Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean's (PLAC) Third Annual Conference
Right, Left, Right: U-Turns and Their Impact in Latin America and the Caribbean
October 12, 2017
University of Pennsylvania
8:30-9:00am: Registration and Coffee
9:00-9:15 Welcome.
Dean Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing; and
Tulia Falleti, PhD, Class of 1965 Term Associate Professor; Director of Latin American and Latino Studies Program; Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.
9:15 – 10:00am: Inaugural Presentation by Marian Vidaurri, Chief of the Political Analysis Section in the Department of Sustainable Democracy and Special Missions of the Organization of American States Secretariat for Political Affairs (with César Rosales)
The End of the Left-Right Cleavage in Latin America
10:00 – 11:30am - Panel 1: Law, Transitional Justice, and Politics in Changing Times
“Counter-narratives of Security, State Violence, and Terrorism,” Jennifer Flores Sternad Ponce de León, Assistant Professor of Latina/o Literature and Culture, Department of English.
“Politics turn, corporations remain: The undone Transitional Justice in Brazil,” Eduardo Saad-Diniz, Professor in Ribeirão Preto Law and Program for Latin American Integration at the University of São Paulo.
“The International Criminal Court and Latin America” Andrea Matačić Cayley, Penn Law School.
“Overview of Current US Immigration and Refugee Laws” Fernando Chang-Muy and Thomas O’Boyle, Penn Law School.
“NAFTA: Future uncertainty, prospective factual analysis negotiation, and potential implications.” Samuel Torres-Landa (et al), Research Fellow, Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
11:30am – noon: Lunch break
12:00-1:00pm: Lunch time Keynote Lecture by Nicole Legnani, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University [TF2]
Trading Fictions: Love, the Law and the Enterprise of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas
1:00-1:15pm: Coffee
1:15pm-2:45pm Panel 2: Local Politics, Global Consequences
“Look to the South: Mexico’s Indigenous Heritage in the 21st Century”, Richard M. Leventhal, Department of Anthropology, Penn Cultural Center, Penn Musuem; Tiffany C. Cain, Department of Anthropology; Kasey Diserens, Department of Anthropology; and Aldo Anzures Tapia, Graduate School of Education.
“Gender, Patriarchal Participation and Infrastructural Publics in Quito, Ecuador,” Julie Gamble, Perry World House Fellow[TF3] .
“The Return of the Right in the City: The Case of São Paulo” Daniel Aldana-Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology.
“Decolonizing the Caribbean Subject: Responses to the Danilo Medina Presidency in the Dominican Republic,” Ana Almeyda-Cohen, PhD Student in Hispanic Studies.
2:45-3:00pm: Coffee Break
3:00-4:00pm – Roundtable discussion: School Choice in the Americas – A Comparative View of US and Chilean Experiences[TF4] , with Alejandro Carrasco, Sigal Ben-Porath and Michael Johanek[TF5] .
4:00-5:00pm: Poster Presentations (with Coffee)
Poster Group 1: Politics and Health Outcomes
“Stuck Healthily in the Left Lane: Leveraging Nicaragua's Socialist Platform to Pioneer Rural Surgical Care for the Poor,” Jordan Swanson, Division of Plastic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine.
“Donation of Rescued Medical Supplies to Venezuela: A Feasibility Study,” Veronica Zoghbi, Safety Fellow, Perioperative Services, Hospital of the University of Pennyslvania.
“Perceptions of Spirituality and Religion among Haitian Immigrants/Descendants with Cancer”, Christy Charnel, Nursing School, Du Bois College House Research Fellow.
Poster Group 2: Politics and Health Policies and Interventions in Guatemala
“Two Decades of Peace but the Struggle for Health Continues: How Government Actions Affect Healthcare in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala,” Zoe Barbati, College of Arts and Sciences.
“Establishment of a sustainable dermatology global health outreach and residency partnership program in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala,” Peter B. Chanksky, MD Candidate, Perelman School of Medicine.
“Exploring the Double Burden of Malnutrition in the Rural and Urban Populations of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala,” Lynn Hur, College of Arts and Sciences.
“Creciendo Juntos (Growing Together): A Mobile Early Childhood Development Intervention for Community Health Workers in Guatemala,” Esha Khurana MD, MPH Candidate, Perelman School of Medicine.
Poster Group 3: Cuba: From Revolution to Tourism.
“Political nostalgia and the Cuban Revolution: past wars will make you win,” Azahara Palomeque, Associate Director, MSSP Program, School of Social Policy and Practice.
“Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Women: State Violence, Gender Politics, and Resistance in Cuba and in Exile, 1952-1962,” Amanda Nart, College of Arts and Sciences.
“Perspectivas: Social Policy, Race, and Tourism in Cuba,” Melissa Beatriz Skolnick, Research Fellow, School of Social Policy and Practice.
5:00-6:15pm Screening and Discussion of Documentary Four Days In May.
Presentation and Discussion of Four Days In May: An Experimental Documentary by
by Deborah A. Thomas (University of Pennsylvania), Deanne M. Bell (University of East London), and Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn (Kingston and New York)
Executive Producer, John L. Jackson, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania)
6:30-7:30pm Talk and Performance by Cuban Feminist Rapper, La Fina
For more information visit: https://global.upenn.edu/global-impact/penn-in-latin-america/conference